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...Helpful Bolivian. A share of the popular acclaim went to U.N. Commissioner Eduardo Anze Matienzo. the genial Bolivian who prepared the way for federation. Anze Matienzo arrived in Asmara 20 months ago in the wake of bloody riots between Eritrea's Moslems and its Christian Copts. He went into every corner of the land seeking to allay religious distrust. His success was shown by the peaceful nature of Eritrea's first national elections, held earlier this year, which sent 34 Copts and 34 Moslems to an assembly that ratified a constitution acceptable to both sects...
...mile railroad and a dock, arranged to seek a U.S. Export-Import Bank loan, and hoped to produce $50 million worth of manganese a year. To date, Brazil's nationalists have refused to give the go-ahead signal. At the Urucum manganese mine near Corumbá, on the Bolivian border (which could produce an estimated 500,000 tons annually, earn $20 million in foreign exchange for Brazil), a U.S. Steel Brazilian subsidiary has been waiting four years while patriots argue whether it is too risky to have foreigners that close to the border zone...
...Pilot Eddie Rickenbacker, President of Eastern Air Lines, learned that his company had won a legal victory of sorts in a District of Columbia court. In a $500,000 suit against Bolivian Pilot Erick Rios Bridoux, who crashed his P-38 fighter plane into one of Eastern's liners over...
...certainly still intends to nationalize the mines, but he apparently means to go slow. For one thing, recognition from Washington may depend on moderation. One rumor circulating in La Paz is that the government will take over the entire dollar income of the mine owners, and pay them in Bolivian currency at a loaded rate to hold profits down...
...Wanted? Because revolutions often become epidemic, some fear that the Batista coup and last week's Bolivian revolt may be followed by explosions elsewhere, possibly in Ecuador or Colombia. But nobody in Latin America, except the Communists and the neo-fascist fringe, professes to want any other kind of government except democracy. In the long run, as hunger and ignorance are dealt with, democracy may yet win in Latin America, though it is likely to be quite different from the U.S. variety...